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To: Sully- who wrote (75047)	10/21/2009 4:01:03 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

White House Cites Opinion Shows as Basis for Fox News Complaints White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs refers to "Beck" and "Hannity" as the reasons why the Obama administration is criticizing Fox News. FOXNews.com Tuesday, October 20, 2009 White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Tuesday pointed to two top-rated opinion shows on Fox News as the reason why the Obama administration has castigated the network as an illegitimate news organization. Gibbs weighed in on the controversy after several top White House advisers have gone on other channels to criticize Fox News' coverage of the administration, dismiss the network as the mouthpiece of the Republican Party and urge other news organizations not to treat Fox News as a legitimate news station. Gibbs said White House officials "render (that) opinion based on some their coverage and the fairness of that coverage." But asked how Fox News was different from other news organizations, Gibbs mentioned the channel's 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, in an explicit reference to "Beck" and "Hannity" -- even though those two shows represent opinion programming. Informed that those hours are for opinion programming, Gibbs said: "That is our opinion." Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news for Fox News, issued a statement Tuesday defending the company. "Hundreds of journalists come to work each day at Fox News all deeply committed to their craft. It's disappointing that the White House would be so dismissive of their fine work and continue their vengeful war against a news organization," he said. The White House also appeared to stand by its effort to urge other networks to isolate and alienate the channel. Gibbs said Tuesday that it's up to the White House Correspondents Association to decide whether Fox News should continue to be part of the White House pool which covers President Obama. "I'm not going to delineate for the White House Correspondents Association how the pool is conducted. That's not my job," he said. The pool, the rotation through which the networks share the costs and duties of White House coverage, represents the most significant interaction among the news channels. Despite the Obama administration's guidance to other channels to disregard Fox News, there are no indications so far from the other networks that the pool relationship will change. Obama senior adviser David Axelrod on Sunday called on media outlets to join the administration in declaring that Fox News is "not a news organization." "Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way," Axelrod counseled ABC's George Stephanopoulos. "We're not going to treat them that way." White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN on Sunday that Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world (to) basically be led in following Fox." foxnews.com

To: Sully- who wrote (75047)	10/21/2009 9:47:57 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 90947

Wow, I had not noticed it before but he is right. Obama is like Nixon. We shudder to think of what other dirty tricks we will discover Obama has been up to.

To: Sully- who wrote (75047)	10/21/2009 11:30:29 PM
From: Peter Dierks	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

Name That Party: NYT Quick to ID GOP Insult of Jews -- Avoided Labeling Dem's Anti-Semitic Tactics By Clay Waters October 21, 2009 - 16:37 ET Two Republican chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for an op-ed article that made a clumsy comment about wealthy Jews being fiscally prudent. Reporter Robbie Brown and The New York Times's headline writers quickly let us know the two offenders were Republican: "2 South Carolina Republicans Apologize for Reference to Jews." It made quite a contrast from how the Times treated a Democratic candidate for Congress who circulated truly scurrilous claims against her Jewish opponent in a 2008 primary election. In Wednesday's story, both the online headline (the print edition headline is different) and a photo caption readily identified the offenders as members of the GOP, as did Brown in his first sentence: Two Republican county chairmen in South Carolina have apologized for a newspaper op-ed article that stereotyped Jews as financial penny pinchers. The chairmen wrote the article in The Times and Democrat of Orangeburg, S.C., on Sunday in defense of Senator Jim DeMint's opposition to Congressional earmarks, comparing his fiscal watchfulness to that of Jews. "There is a saying that the Jews who are wealthy got that way not by watching dollars, but instead by taking care of the pennies and the dollars taking care of themselves," the opinion article stated. "By not using earmarks to fund projects for South Carolina and instead using actual bills, DeMint is watching our nation's pennies and trying to preserve our country's wealth and our economy's viability to give all an opportunity to succeed." A Democratic state senator, Joel Lourie of Kershaw and Richland Counties, who is Jewish, called the comment "disgusting" and "unconscionable" and said it represented "prejudice in its purest form." He called for the two chairmen to lose their positions in the state Republican Party and asked Mr. DeMint and Karen Floyd, the state party chairwoman, to denounce their comments. In contrast, the Times's Adam Nossiter in August 2008 managed to write a disturbing story about a far more inflammatory example of genuine racism and anti-Semitism in a Democratic primary in Memphis -- but left out the "Democrat" part, which is pretty hard to do when reporting on a party primary election. And as opposed to the klutzy stereotyped tribute offered by the South Carolina Republican county chairmen, the earlier offense was committed by an actual Democratic politician: In the culmination of a racially fraught Congressional campaign in Memphis, a black candidate is linking her liberal-leaning white primary opponent in Thursday's contest, Representative Steve Cohen, to the Ku Klux Klan in a television advertisement. Mr. Cohen's campaign said it was an unusually direct effort to inject race into the contest. The advertisement for the challenger, Nikki Tinker, juxtaposes Mr. Cohen's picture with that of a hooded Klansman, and criticizes Mr. Cohen for voting against renaming a park in Memphis currently named for the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Ku Klux Klan founder. One flier circulated in Memphis read: "Why do Steve Cohen and the Jews Hate Jesus?" —Clay Waters is the director of Times Watch, an MRC project tracking the New York Times. newsbusters.org